Zhang Xuan stood at the head of the city with his hands in his hands, his eyes indifferently watching the thief army overwhelmingly attacking Wucheng, and he also saw Zhang Jincheng's motive, this is completely a repetition of the siege of Qinghe County, driving the low-level soldiers to come to the siege to die, reducing the consumption of food, and being able to capture Wucheng County, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

But is Wucheng County so easy to attack? Zhang Xuan couldn't help but sneer,

Just now, Zhang Xuan received an eagle letter from Wei Yunqi from Beihai County, saying that the 5,000 troops sent to Beihai County had been completely annihilated.

This news caused a big stone that was pressing on Zhang Xuan's heart to be removed, so that he had no worries, and he could not rush and consume the thief army until they ran out of food.

At this time, Luo Shixin walked quickly and reported: "General, the brothers are ready. ”

Jang Hyun turned around and handed him the arrow, "Go all out!" ”

"Obey!"

Jang Hyun gave the order to start a counterattack, and a high-pitched horn suddenly sounded above the city.

"Whew-"

At this time, the order to counterattack was immediately drummed.

Nancheng is the place where the thieves concentrate on attacking, hundreds of medium-sized trebuchets in the east and west rows creak open, and a boulder weighing forty or fifty catties is placed in the leather pocket, and each trebuchet only needs more than ten people to operate, which greatly saves manpower.

In addition to trebuchets, the Sui army also built more than 200 bed crossbows, that is, large crossbow arrows, which were operated by six soldiers with a winch, and the bed crossbow fired one main arrow and six secondary arrows at a time.

The main arrow is five feet long, the arrow is made of stainless steel, the shaft of the arrow is hardwood, the range is more than 600 steps, and it has the power of piercing gold and cracking stones.

The secondary arrow is one foot five inches long, and it is a slightly larger crossbow arrow, which is shot along with the main arrow.

In addition, 5,000 Sui soldiers with spears and bows and arrows were waiting at the top of the city.

Zhang Jin said that the army was getting closer and closer, and it had entered the 500-step line, and if it was a super-large trebuchet, it could be projected, but the trebuchet in Wucheng County was slightly smaller. The range was only three hundred paces.

Luo Shixin watched the wave of thieves' attacks approaching the city step by step, and the front army had already entered five hundred steps, and he waved the green battle flag in his hand.

"Bed crossbow shooting!"

The Sui army's bed crossbow suddenly shot out, and two hundred four-foot-long hardwood iron arrows and countless dense small arrows shot at the thief army in unison.

A dense barrage of arrows whizzed. The shield of the thief army could not block the powerful arrows, and a group of people in the army turned on their backs, and hundreds of thief soldiers were shot down, and the big arrows were even more powerful, and one arrow shot through two soldiers.

A strong stone-throwing ** tempted Luo Shixin. But the red flag in his hand was never waved, and if the red flag was not waved, the commander next to each trebuchet did not dare to give the order to shoot.

Three hundred steps, the thief army finally entered the range of the trebuchet, and the red flag in Luo Shixin's hand finally waved, "Shoot!" More than a hundred commanders of the Sui army shouted almost simultaneously.

The trebuchet was activated, and more than a hundred long throwing rods swung out, smashing hundreds of huge stones into the camp of the thieves, and the boulders made a sharp whistling sound and rolled in the air. Swiftly appeared above the heads of the thieves, and the thieves shouted and dodged in either way, or burrowed into the leather buckets.

'Boom! With a muffled sound, the boulder fell, the dust flew, and several thief soldiers couldn't dodge, and were smashed into meat sauce, and the powerful impact made the boulder continue to roll and rush straight into the group of thief soldiers. There was a scream, more than a dozen soldiers were killed, blood was splashed, and the whole boulder was dyed red.

Another loud bang. A boulder hit the leather shed, a 'bang' sound, the slippery leather bucket made the boulder that had been polished off the edges and corners could not be solid, and it slipped out more than 20 steps, and this boulder did not achieve the effect.

But not every boulder can withstand the leather bucket, it depends on how smooth the stone itself is. If the stone is rough and hairy, it will be difficult for the leather bucket to be effective.

There was another muffled sound, accompanied by the cracking sound of the bracket, a leather shed was smashed, hundreds of thief soldiers hiding under the leather bucket stumbled out, and many people were injured by the collapsed wooden pillars and suffered under the leather shed**.

The second round of trebuchets was launched again, and hundreds of boulders rolled in the air, whistling and smashing, smashing the thieves and soldiers on their backs, flesh and blood flying, the leather sheds shattered, and the rafts broken, followed by the third and fourth rounds..... Hundreds of casualties were killed and wounded in each round of catapults.

Although the trebuchet is huge, but after all, the number is small, can not form a huge lethality, more than 10,000 thieves army has rushed to the city, the Sui army on the city ten thousand arrows in unison, arrows like hail rain, overwhelming towards the thief army.

The thieves raised their shields to meet each other, but compared with the bows and arrows of Linzi County, the bows and arrows of the Sui army in Wucheng County were much more lethal, and the Sui soldiers used large bows, although the accuracy of this bow was not high, but the ejection power was strong, and it could shoot a hardwood soldier arrow one foot three inches long eighty paces away.

The shaft of this arrow is made of ash or maple, very hard and heavy, the Sui soldiers threw out, it used its own gravity to penetrate the wooden shield used by the thief soldiers, the shooting force is very strong, it belongs to the city defense weapon.

In the rain of arrows, thousands of thieves and soldiers will be several feet long raft 'boom! The ground was erected on the moat, and more than two dozen temporary tree bridges were formed, so that the sharp piles under the moat were no longer defensive.

A wide ladder more than three feet high set up the city, groups of fierce thieves rushed up the ladder and began to climb up, the Sui army's arrow rain came obliquely, rolling wood and stones fell head-on, and a string of thief soldiers screamed and fell down the stairs.

His body was shot by arrows, his head was smashed, and the dead bodies were piled up under the city walls, followed by a frantic climb of the stairs by thieves and soldiers, desperate to charge upward.

At this moment, the drums in the camp of the thieves were beating again, and five thousand soldiers of the thief army rushed to the dust, and they needed to pass through the range of the boulder and the bed crossbow at the fastest speed of 500 to 300 paces.

The boulder roared and smashed the thieves and soldiers over one by one, and the arrows of the bed crossbow were so powerful and fast that one arrow could shoot through two or three people, and the soldiers rolled and screamed, and the boulders and arrows were littered with horrific corpses and blood.

At this moment, Zhang Jin said that 20,000 siege soldiers had been invested, and the offensive and defensive battles of the city had entered a white-hot stage.

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The army of 13,000 thieves had all crossed the moat, and the corpses under the city were piled up, and the blood gushing from the corpses flowed into the moat like a stream, staining the dry riverbed red.

Thousands of thieves from under the city also fired arrows in unison, and the arrows above and below the city were like dense rain, intertwined into a net of arrows, and the thieves held their shields high, stood on the rolling logs and stones, stepped on the corpses of their companions, and climbed the city ladder to attack the city frantically.

Everyone's mind echoed with Zhang Jincheng's bounty, the first person to rush to the city was rewarded with a thousand taels, and the huge bounty made them completely forget the fear of death and climb the city desperately.

Every moment, every moment, there were thieves who were shot with bows and arrows, hit by boulders and rolling logs, smashed their heads and bled out, screaming and falling from the city ladder or tumbling down.

At the head of the city, more than a dozen Sui soldiers were defending a battlement, and three or four soldiers were fighting fiercely with the thief soldiers who were desperately climbing the city, while a few soldiers were shooting arrows at the side of the thieves on both sides, or lifting boulders to smash the screaming thief soldiers down.

At this time, a Sui soldier screamed, he was shot by an arrow under the city in the face of the door, fell on his back, another Sui soldier quickly stepped forward to fill his position, after nearly two hours of fighting, the Sui army also suffered heavy casualties, nearly 1,000 dead and wounded, most of them were killed by arrows, and some of them were killed in the fight with the thieves who rushed up.

At this time, a Sui army commander found a long iron fork, forked the city ladder and pushed it outward, "Pull out the iron hook!" He yelled.

More than a dozen Sui soldiers gave up archery, and stepped forward one after another to raise their knives and slash indiscriminately, cutting the iron hook joints hanging on the city's head, and the iron hooks fell off the siege ladder.

Everyone pushed the ladder together and shouted, "One, two, three!" ”

The castle head was covered with smooth ice, and the heavy castle ladder slowly slid to the right, and the castle ladder gradually left the castle head, and could no longer support it on the castle head, so it slid down the ice.

The nearly 100 thieves on the ladder let out a long series of screams, some jumped from the ladder, and most of them fell out with the ladder, 'Boom! With a loud bang, the ladder was broken apart, and more than 100 people on the ladder were killed or wounded, unable to move.

Although Zhang Jin claimed that the army sent was what he considered to be a rabble, this rabble only referred to the fierce battles of the soldiers in the formation and on the battlefield, and in the siege of the city, because of Zhang Jincheng's heavy reward and encouragement, every thief soldier worked extremely hard, which also brought great pressure to the Sui army.

At the western end of the city, the Sui army finally had a crisis, and the nearly 100-zhang long city in this area was mainly a place where materials were piled up, guarded by more than 500 prisoners of war who had just been reorganized into the Sui army.

Because the place where the materials were stacked was very narrow, the battlefield could not be placed, and the defense of the Sui army was not very tight.

Duan Zhengzhong, the thief general who commanded the siege, discovered this defensive loophole, and he immediately ordered three siege ladders to quietly attack from here.

He also mobilized a thousand elite thief troops, that is, Zhang Jin's impermanent army, they were Zhang Jin's direct army, all of them were tall and powerful, and they fought fiercely.

The night was dark, and in a scuffle, Wei Chigong did not find the attempt of the thief army, and hundreds of elite thief soldiers quickly climbed upward.

The Sui army guarding the western end began to shout, some of them throwing stones downward, some stabbing the city ladder with their spears, but they could not stop the thieves from entering the city.

The crisis in Wucheng County has finally appeared. (To be continued.) )